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Mobile Computing

In the movie "Wall Street", Gordon Gecko would walk down the beach brandishing a brick that would have cost in excess of $10,000 dollars at the time.

Cell phones are cheap, small and everywhere now days. What are the potential applications of cell phones beyond simply making voice calls? Once they become a full-scale computing platform, what will the major applications be?

Does the average user WANT a full-scale computing platform in their pocket when they want to make a simple call? "Full-scale" in computer context seems to mean sort of a Swiss blade -- a device that can (theoretically) do everything, but isn't above average at anything.

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